[TIP] PYPI Testing Infrastructure

[Barry Warsaw]

On May 27, 2010, at 11:01 AM, mouad ben wrote:

>My name is Mouad and i have been accepted to be part of the GSOC this year
>and my work will be about creating a PYPI Testing Infrastructure (PYTI).

Very cool, I'd love to see this.

>1- so every time a package get uploaded to PYPI, the PYTI get a notification
>using the pubsubhubbub something
>
>2- a module that i called Packager will read the feed extract the
>information about the new package store the information in the database ,
>and dowload the new package in the server.
>
>3- the core of the system is running pony-build, it will get a notification
>from the Packager module that a new package is ready to be tested so that
>the testing will started

One thing that I'd really like to see is a standard interface for running the
tests of a package.  My own preference would be that 'python setup.py test'
is that interface.  It's not at all difficult to make this work, and with
Distribute/distutils2 it should be even easier.

>I already started working on it , and i need the community feedback and any
>idea is very welcome , the project is hosted on this link :
>http://bitbucket.org/mouad/pypi-testing-infrastructure/

This page doesn't seem to exist.

-Barry
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